Proverbs 12:2
A good man shall obtain favor of LORD, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
In Context
1He who loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is brutish.
3A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
Cross References
Psalms 9:15The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
Proverbs 1:31Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Proverbs 8:35For he who finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of LORD.
Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man who has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, nor has he power over the day of death. And there is no discharge in war. Neither shall wickedness deliver him who is given to it.
Acts 11:24Because he was a good man, and full of Holy Spirit and of faith. And a considerable multitude was added to the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:2
Advantages of the Righteous. 1 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish. We are here taught to try whether we have grace or no by enquiring how we stand affected to the means of grace. 1. Those that have grace and love it will delight in all the instructions that are given them by way of counsel; admonition, or reproof, by the word or providence of God; they will value a good education, and think it not a hardship, but a happiness, to be under a strict and prudent… Read the whole commentary →